Union Station on Thrillist’s most beautiful list

Thrillist.com’s travel team rode the rails – at least virtually – to find The 11 Most Beautiful Train Stations Across America.

And no surprise to Denver dwellers, the rehabbed Union Station downtown was included in the lauded list. Thrillist looked for stations that are so “beautiful, so historic,  so straight-up cool that you’re more than happy to get stuck, if only to wander around for a bit and pretend you’re Eliot Ness trying to take down Al Capone.”

Here’s what the website said about our spiffed up train station:

“Union Station, like Uma Thurman, may have undergone a few nips and tucks recently, but that hasn’t compromised its Beaux Arts facade, which was built in 1914. Today, the station’s most striking features include its exposed Train Hall (made of 11 steel arches), a 112-room boutique hotel, a slew of restaurants, shops, and bars and over 600 works of art on display throughout. And if that’s not enough, there’s even a 22-gate underground bus concourse lit by skylights. Okay, that was probably enough.”

To see the rest of the best, go to www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/grand-central-union-station-and-more-of-america-s-most-beautiful-train-stations.